Show HN: An open-source alternative to Bitly

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GitHub Pages

Cool. Checking it out. For those looking for more options, Dub[1] is a matured open-source[2] link shortener with Analytics. For not-so-large volumes of links, say for friends-family, and the occasional public links, you can run something off Github Pages[3] with their built-in Jekyll + Redirect-From Plugin[4]. If you do not want to, you do not even need to have the code run locally, just edit on Github. I run one to easily share links for the family and relatives (photos, that document link, along with the Rick-Roll Video). Tip: If one wants to run an indie or personal or family/friends shortlink for easy sharing, try to have it on your own domain. This allowed me to moved between tools that powers it. 1. https://dub.co 2. https://github.com/dubinc/dub 4. <a href="https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-redirect-from">https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-redirect-from</a>.

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Dub.co

Cool. Checking it out. For those looking for more options, Dub[1] is a matured open-source[2] link shortener with Analytics. For not-so-large volumes of links, say for friends-family, and the occasional public links, you can run something off Github Pages[3] with their built-in Jekyll + Redirect-From Plugin[4]. If you do not want to, you do not even need to have the code run locally, just edit on Github. I run one to easily share links for the family and relatives (photos, that document link, along with the Rick-Roll Video). Tip: If one wants to run an indie or personal or family/friends shortlink for easy sharing, try to have it on your own domain. This allowed me to moved between tools that powers it. 1. https://dub.co 2. https://github.com/dubinc/dub 4. <a href="https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-redirect-from">https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-redirect-from</a>.

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And if you use Netlify, you can just create a _redirects file like this: <pre><code> / https://example.com.

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Shlink

Last big project at my old job was for an appointment notification service. In addition to making messages longer and thus costing us more, counterintuitively the unshortened URLs got flagged as spam by automated systems and end users more than shortened. However, you can’t use bitly or other free/public shorteners; use one hosted on your own domain. I used shlink https://shlink.io/.

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